It may resemble a huge caterpillar stretched over the Yarra River, but artist Robert Owen says the Docklands' new Webb Bridge, which opened yesterday, is designed to resemble an Aboriginal fish trap.
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AILING PONTIFFPope 'in very bad way'
Pope John Paul II is in very poor health and the faithful should pray for him, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the German head of the Vatican body which oversees doctrinal matters, has said. more

VeriSign's sitefinder service, the page on its website to which all mistyped .com and .net queries are now routed by the registrar, is leaking information to marketing analysis firm Omniture, according to Richard M. Smith, an independent security researcher. Full report

Odd Spot
Thousands of London Underground commuters were held up - by a vasectomy. A trainee train river fell out of his speeding cab after fainting over fellow workers' descriptions of a vasectomy operation a colleague had undergone. He survived the fall.
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